Ok, it started out back in 1996, where I had been getting very tired, etc. Legs would swell, feet & a little bit in the stomach.
I was diagnosed having Hep C, with Cirrhosis. At that time, I was told there were no treatments, no cures, to live every day to it's fullest.
Here I am Feb. 2008. I am worse, yes, alot worse. I retain fluids like crazy..............right now I am 40 pounds of extra fluids. Have severe abdominal pain, wheezing, flu type symptoms always. So it is so much worse.
I have gone through every procedure & test possible for something like this. I was told that I'd be placed on the liver transplant list, but may die waiting. I have outlived the 2 years they said that I had left, that is for sure. But, I'm so much worse.
I can't do every day things like others do. Don't even want to get up out of bed, let alone make it. Shopping for food, yuk, I don't even want to eat.
So, now every 6 months I have an endoscopy done. Once a month blood tests, for cancer, platelets, liver functions, etc. And now I have bleeding from the esophageaus, rectum. So then that means periodically I have to have platelets & transfusions to build it back up. Sometimes I start getting depressed over all of this..........as it keeps getting worse & I feel worse.
Now, I found a pretty good doctor, but it is just starting all of this over again. CTScans, bloodwork, endoscopy, colonoscopy, changing meds., they say that more than likely I would end up with liver cancer, as the psorhosis is so bad.
Anyone out there in a similar situation? I just don't know how much more my body can go through.
Thanks so much for reading my scarey letter. Hope noone has to go through this awful illness of Hep C/Cirrhosis.
God Bless, Sandy Woodruff